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' J G. WADLEIGH.

BULB SUPPOSITORY.

No. 246,697. Patented Sept. 6,1881.

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IJNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. WADLEIGH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO DAVID DUNCAN, OF SAME PLACE.

BULB-SUPPOSITORY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 246,697, dated September 6, 1881,

Application filed November 6, 1880.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN (l. VVADLEIGH, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and Improved Bulb-Suppository, of which the following is a full description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 are both full-size elevations,

1o Varying only in the form of the bulb.

The object of this invention is to provide a plastic or composition medicated suppository with means to retain it in position within the urethra without the necessity of employing r pads or other separate appliances for such purpose.

To this end my invention consists in providing a composition medicated suppository with a laterally-projecting bulbous projection,

which serves to retain it in position in the urethra.

The device is shown full size for ordinary use, but is more frequently made smaller than increased in size. It is made, by preference, of

gelatine and glycerine in equal parts, but a good quality of molasses or saccharine sirups may be used in place of glycerine, and glue, gum-arabic, and other innocuous substances which dissolve in water may be used in place of gelatine. The suppository is medicated either by mixing the remedy in the material of which it is formed or by applying the de- (No model.)

sired remedy afterward; and I use such remedies as are best adapted to the disease for which it is applied.

This soluble medicated suppository is designed for intrauterine use, and is applicable to diseases of the womb, and has the advantage of applying the remedy directly to the parts to be affected, and its bulbous form keeps it in place without other appliance special for that purpose.

I have not described theremedies to be used, as I do not limit myself to any particular one; but I use the various remedies well known as beneficial to theparticular disease for which it is to be applied.

I do not broadly claim a composition medicated suppository, as such is not my imention, the essential feature of which consists in 0 providing such suppositories with a laterallyprojectiug bulb, whereby it is confined and retained within the urethra without the necessity of using pads orotherseparateappliances.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A composition medicated suppository provided with a laterally-projecting bulbous portion for retaining it in the urethra, substantially as described.

JOHN C. WADLEIGH.

Witnesses:

B. A. PRICE, ALBERT H. ADAMS. 

